How to do a spleen preserving porto-splenic pancreas transplantation.

Whole organ pancreas transplantation is a validated technique of the management of insulin sensitive diabetes and its complications. While several techniques have been described for this procedure that carries a significant morbidity and small mortality risk, surgery requires adequately sized vessels to implant the organ. In this paper, the authors describe a novel technique of implantation of the pancreas onto the splenic vessels with concomitant splenic preservation or other visceral vessels that they have employed when traditional implantation sites are not suitable with successful outcome on long term follow up.